11 papers
Paid Voices vs. Public Feeds: Interpretable Cross-Platform Theme-Based Analysis of Climate Discourse
Samantha Sudhoff, Pranav Perumal, Zhaoqing Wu +1
Climate discourse online shapes public understanding of climate change and informs political and policy debate, yet it unfolds across structurally different environments: paid adve…
Pareto-Guided Teacher Alignment for Fair Personalized Text Generation
Tunazzina Islam
Personalized persuasive text generation can improve relevance and engagement, but demographic conditioning may also introduce unequal framing across groups. We study fairness mitig…
Reasoning-Based Refinement of Unsupervised Text Clusters with LLMs
Tunazzina Islam
Unsupervised methods are widely used to induce latent semantic structure from large text collections, yet their outputs often contain incoherent, redundant, or poorly grounded clus…
Who Gets Which Message? Auditing Demographic Bias in LLM-Generated Targeted Text
Tunazzina Islam
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of generating personalized, persuasive text at scale, raising new questions about bias and fairness in automated communication…
Retrieval Improvements Do Not Guarantee Better Answers: A Study of RAG for AI Policy QA
Saahil Mathur, Ryan David Rittner, Vedant Ajit Thakur +2
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are increasingly used to analyze complex policy documents, but achieving sufficient reliability for expert usage remains challenging in…
Iterative Topic Taxonomy Induction with LLMs: A Case Study of Electoral Advertising
Alexander Brady, Tunazzina Islam
Social media platforms play a pivotal role in shaping political discourse, but analyzing their vast and rapidly evolving content remains a major challenge. We introduce an end-to-e…